The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-15
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
True Christian Character as Devel-
oped in Women.
The Royal Traits of Mercy ard Benevo-
lence Abundantiy Demonstrated In
Their Lives In Acting as Gods -
MinisterIng Angels.

was tribute TO the noble and con
spicuous place woman has taken as the
almoners of God in dispensing his mercies
TO those most in need of them. His text
was:
There are threc-score Queens. -Solomon's
Song vi
So Solomon, by one stroke, sci forth the
imperial character OF a true Christian
woman. She is not a slave, not hireling
not a subordinate, but n Queen; and in
my text Solomon secs sixty of these help
ingto make up the royal pageant Of Jesus.
In a former sermon | showed YOU that
crown and Courtly attendants and i'm
perial wardrobe were not necessary to
make a Queen; but that graces of the
heart and life will give coronation to any
woman. | showed YOU at some length
that womau'S position was higher in the
world than mans. and that, although she
had often been denied the right Of suf
fragc. she always did vote and always
would vote by her influence: and that her
chief desire ought To lie that she should
have grace rightly IL rule ia the dominion
which she has already won. | began All
enumeration of some Of her rights, and
this morning resume the subject.
IN the first place, women has the special
and superlative right-uot again going
back to what have already said woman
has the special and suprrlative right OF
blessing and comforting the sick
What land, what street, hat house has
not felt the smiting, of disease: Tens of
thousands Of sckbcdS, What shall we do
with them Shall mau. with his rough
hand and clumsy foot, ~ stumbling
around the sick-room wing to soothe the
distracted nerves, aud alleviate the pains
OF the tossing patient. The young man
at college NAV scoiT at the idea of being
under maternal Influences: hut at the first
blast of the tNphuid fever on his cheek he
saws: "Whtre is mother" Walter Scott
wrote partly in satire and partly ia com.
pliuumt When he said.
q woman. in. unr hour, Of Ease.
Uncertain. 60, and hard 10 please.
When PAN and anguish wiring the brow,
mHu,t'rIu@ "'lA thou
tnlns the most pathetic passages III all
tn" Hlhle Is tn" DESCRIPTION ut the lat who
went cat To the harry ,t-held of Shuuem
and got Sml>trurk throwing his hands on
his temples and crying out: "Oh, my
heatt! my head,' and they said: Garry
him f. his mother Aud then the record
is. He sat ou her knee tDlt noon and then
died
1t is an aw iuI thing :" BE- i'll away from
men coming i'll to lool. at YOU. holding
their hand over their mouth for fear they
VIII catch the "oRtaeion. How roughly
they turn You IN bed. How loudly they
tax. How Nou long Tor the mlhiSterieS of
nome. | knew one such who went away
from one OF the brightest Of homes for
several weeks business absence at the
West. \ telegram came at midnight that
he was on his dcath-bed. far away from
nome bN express tram the wife and
daughters went westward, hut they were
TOO late lie feared not I" die, bat he was
III an agony 20 live until his family got
there. lie tried to brIhe the doctor to
make nm i've iltt!e Whhe longer.
lie Said' Il am "lliIhS 70 de, but
not alone But the pulses huttered, the
eyes closed ana the heart stopped. The
express trans met III the midnight: wife
ana daughters gong WeStward-llleleSs
remains OF husband ana father coming
eastward On, II was sad pitltul' over
"heImlhS spectacle mem We are SICK
We want 10 ne SICK al nome heh the
JlIhe comes LOT Us 10 dle, we want To Ole at
nome. me room may lie very huhole,
ana me races tAaI looh INTO ours may DE
very PIalh; buI VINO cares loF tuat: Low
ihS haHuA 10 ha'At lAo temples Loving
''io'' " Hi''N -'''''' 'H''i' A''' me 4lP9
10 Trau thH comforting promises Oh Jesus.
IN our last dIehdIu! war men cast the
cahhoh' men I"NAioht" The ltHNketlH
meh cried 10 lHe n"NtS: Forward,
hlaEcI men h'"IP' tAeIf hai'dllohN on
the Shaip edges 81 the enemy, crying;
ChafGe charge hul woman scfaPed
the mt; woman administered The coldlaIS;
woman watched by the dying couch;
woman wrote The last message TO the
home circle; woman Wept at the solitary
burial attended ny herself ana lOur men
with spade.
We greeted the General home with brass
bands, and tI!UInphal arches, and Wild
huZZaS; bUt the HtofS II TOO good To he
written anywhere, save III the chronicles
of Heaven, OF Mrs. Brady, "Ao came down
among the SICK iii the SWampS or the
ChlcKahomlnN of ANNE Kos, III the
cooper-Shop hospital; OF Margaret breok-
inridge, who came to men who had been
for weeks with their wounds uudre>sed,
some of them frozen To the ground. and
when she turned them over, those that had
an arm left waved ii and filled the air with
their "hurrah;' Of Mr.. Hodge, who came
from Chicag" with blankets uhd with pli.
lows, until the men shouted: Three cheers
for the Christian '"mint~S.un' God bless
the women AT home then sitting down To
take the last mes age. Tell my Wife not to
fret about me but - meet me IN Heaven.
Tell her TO train up the boys whom We
have loved $" we'll. lei her We shall
meet again ia the good land.
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